that if taiwan is cedar over in some form, they would just be taiwan. i mean, tara china would still continue to be aggressive in the area. and i think that's, that's very key to keep in mind. i'm just looking here on my laptop and it says a piece that you wrote brian for the guardian. it says, don't believe china's convenient historical tales. taiwan belongs to the taiwanese earlier this month on biology was show the bottom line. the u. s. ambassador to china had this to say about the history of china and taiwan. and the relationship between taiwan and china haven't listened to this. the question of taiwan fundamentally speaking is not about to democracy or freedom is about china's national sovereignty. and a territory integrity is about the national dignity of chinese people. the historical fact is that china has been pop. taiwan has been part of china since ancient times. people need to understand history and need to know the international law. ryan, how do you argue with a country that says it's a historical fact that your nation is part of our nati

for the taiwan people. i really hope the americans won't come around to mess things up so that we can live a peaceful life. but if this is being seen as a united front completely in the market, us just not true, is it because you've got a top us officials, military figures, according to joe biden, at least saying that policy stopping in taipei is just not the right time. so how does the house speak or what she, what is her supporter said to justify it? it was interesting that we just got that statement from her and which she's kind of really giving a blanket response to all of these legitimate concerns that are being raised here. and this is a different town in order, notably than what we've heard from her in the past. but it's also notable, we're still waiting from for a statement from the, by the administration to see what they will say. because the last we heard from secretary of state blink, and he claimed that he had no idea about clothes these plans, and that it was entirely up to her as to whether or

it really does around taiwan.

relationship with taiwan.ton does not have formal diplomatic ties with the island, but maintains what it calls a policy of "strategic ambiguity." it recognizes the chinese government in beijing, but not china's territorial claim to taiwan. the u.s. does supply weapons to taipei under its "1979 taiwan relations act." the island is a major economic and technology partner to the u.s. it supplies more than half of the world semiconductor's. china sees taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be united and hasn't ruled out using force. ♪ kim: bringing our guests. in taipei, vincent chao, former director of the political division, taipei economic and cultural representative office in the u.s., and a former chief of staff to both the taiwan national security council, and foreign minister. in miami, june teufel dreyer, a professor of political science at the university of miami, and editor of the book "taiwan in the era of tsai ing-wen: changes and challenges." and in beijing, henry huiyao wang, founder and

so where is taiwan? nod east, i want in a place in which it needs to prepared economically and militarily and foster the potential chinese envision. i think as we what that, as it's like an all rule men, proper sage is back in part of a room. if you want to have your freedom, you have to be prepared to fight for you or for you for your peace and freedom. and that's what we've been doing the last in the last yes. maybe in the last ticket you have been doing that, but do you not think that the intensity of that has to increase the frequency with which you do that has to increase? so there is more of a pressure on taiwan is there not after these recent tensions, it is after admit it is, but we want it. that's another reason why we give up our freedom democracy. this over is of course there's always risk. we are, we knew it by the we are sitting in the same boat together. we americans, we sort of friends around would see didn't a boat and nobody rosabelle. right. but we will talk about that. but i would like

i think the legitimate interests of the people of taiwan not for taiwan before our american economic interests. and the same thing we've done with ukraine with instrumental eyes, the problem in the ukraine. and of course, military industrial complex is laughing all the way down to the bank, and anyone who was invested in the military is very happy about ukraine. them is very happy about being sent to taiwan when i do not see a conflagration anytime soon. angelo one could also was just as alfred alluded to their how helpful this is for the tie when these themselves is there an argument to be made that they could be left in a much more tense environment than before despite pelosi is trying to achieve our see she wants to do was ponies, there's a very large majority that one does start to score it is going against of course one's interest. keep in mind that one is actually the fact to economically integrated with china. 50 percent of a cohen's expose go to china to highly dependent on china. you have 2000000 taiwanese that actually leave on the mainland. so you have the factory integrat

china starts operating closer and closer to taiwan, i think taiwan— and closer to taiwan, i think taiwan the chinese first rarity which activities _ the chinese first rarity which activities and if china starts flying — activities and if china starts flying over taiwan airspace. but, _ flying over taiwan airspace. but, as_ flying over taiwan airspace. but, as we see the two militaries started coming even closer— militaries started coming even closer and operating closer and closer — closer and operating closer and closer together. there is a risk— closer together. there is a risk of— closer together. there is a risk of potential escalation. if risk of potential escalation. if china _ risk of potential escalation. if china decides to fly aeroplanes over taiwan airspace, taiwan may try to intercept— airspace, taiwan may try to intercept them and what happens intercept them and what happens in the _ intercept them and what happens in the air, — intercept them and what happens in the air, we could see a mideir— in the air, we could see a midair collision, we could see a lot— midair collision,

is how taiwan may react _ into taiwan's airspace is how taiwan may react it— into taiwan's airspacewould be from taiwan and's perspective, if they do not respond. — and's perspective, if they do not respond. it— and's perspective, if they do not respond, it was set a precedent for china _ respond, it was set a precedent for china to _ respond, it was set a precedent for china to taiwan if they do respond, there's a _ china to taiwan if they do respond, there's a real risk of escalation. what _ there's a real risk of escalation. what is — there's a real risk of escalation. what is that escalation look like and at what point do you see the us getting involved as well? i and at what point do you see the us getting involved as well?— getting involved as well? i think, if as china _ getting involved as well? i think, if as china starts _ getting involved as well? i think, if as china starts operating - getting involved as well? i think, j if as china starts operating closer and closer— if as china starts operating closer and closer to taiwan, i think taiwan will be _ and closer to taiwan

for the taiwan people. i really hope the americans won't come around to mess things up so that we can live a peaceful life policy talking about taiwanese democracy, taiwanese democracy here, and you hear some of the comments from the locals as saying they're really concerned because this is, it's flaring an awful lot of tension between the 2 biggest players on the well blog these days. so yeah, it is curious as the kind of rhetoric that's coming out of close his mouth these days. how is the how speaker actually really justify? well, you know, we haven't heard much from her in terms of what she believes is the justification for this visit. even with that statement that she released just a couple of hours ago. but in all of this, it's also been notable to see how the white house has responded to this, right? you get president biden, who himself has admitted that the u. s. military did not think this trip was a good idea that they were concerned about the ways in which it would increase tensions between the us

taiwan everywhere. and friends would taiwan. that's very important. and i do believe that after the russian in, after the russia invasion to you train taiwan is people know that if we stand for a longer time, if we can fight, if we can protect our land as much as we can do in china, evade high one then i think the allies and our friends, well, we're supporters more well take to with us. i think that's a very strong message far as i am wondering what it feels like trying to live in a nation where huge palace on one side of the land take and then huge, a huge power as your neighbor. talk about taiwan as if it's a poon in a game of chess. what does that feel like? yeah, that is something that i find very concerning because that was also, i think, in regards to plus he visit how much it was discussed. again, as i mentioned, there is not the focus on what tony's thought about their own future. there's a lot of talk about in terms of the u. s. and china and so forth. and so i think that does raise one of the

taiwan to offset . you promise taiwan to offset the cost _ you promise taiwan to offset the cost ofip? - you promise taiwan to offset the cost of your trip?- you promise taiwan to offset the cost of your trip? well, at the cost of your trip? well, at the same _ the cost of your trip? well, at the same time _ the cost of your trip? well, at the same time as _ the cost of your trip? well, at the same time as this - the cost of your trip? well, at the same time as this trip i the cost of your trip? well, at the same time as this trip is l the same time as this trip is taking place, and in recognition of our common interests, economically, we just passed the act, something that opens the door for us to again have good, better economic exchanges. i know that some taiwanese businesses, significant ones, are already planning to invest in manufacturing in the united states, the ingenuity, the entrepreneurial spirit, the brainpower, the intellectual resource that exists in taiwan and the success of the tech industry here for one sector, it is really a model, and again we want to increase our

more missiles over taiwan, more missiles coming closer to taiwan. think another way to think about the potential for escalation, you know, is the creation of a new status quo with ships and aircraft routinely violating the middle line. so when there is another provocation, do you get closer, do you violate territorial waters of the main island? right? so i think to some extent, what you are going to see is a competition in kind of displays of resolved by the two sides. and, you know, as was talked about earlier, the u.s. is going to need to show some response to this over time, right? and whether those are just transits or other, new planned exercises that are flagging that sort of commitment is hard to predict. but i just feel very confident that the navy is going to want to show that it is not being deterred and that is to taylor's point of then china is going to need to feel -- feel the need to respond because they are try to send the signal that this is not acceptable. it's not the next policy visit, but if you are china looking out at the u.s.

and — to always stand with taiwan. and on— to always stand with taiwan.ion, we have built a thriving partnership, grounded in our shared — partnership, grounded in our shared values of self—government and self—determination, focused on our mutual security in the region— our mutual security in the region and across the world, committed to the economic ties that power prosperity for all of our — that power prosperity for all of our people. studio: so nancy pelosi laying out a little bit of a history of the relations between the two countries. worth pointing out also that there are very few countries that do recognise taiwan as an independent state, and those who do are relatively small countries and dwindling in number. nonetheless the united states in particular leading the drive to make the point that the right to self—government and self determination is etched into taiwan's make up and should be maintained. today, our delegation, which i'm today, our delegation, which i'm very— today, our delegation, which i'm very proud of, came to taiwan— i'm very pro

ah. standing with taiwan in defiance of china. you as how speak at nancy pelosi has ended her controversial visit to the self ruled island. it's triggered an angry response from beijing and how willed tie, pay, and washington deal with the full mouth. this is inside story. ah. po, up into the program on can vanelle, nancy pelosi has become the most senior us politician to visit taiwan in 25 years. us how speak is spent less than a day on the cellphone island. but china, which claims taiwan is part of its territory called the trip a direct challenge to its sovereignty. aging had issued threats and warnings before pelosi even touched down. but america's 3rd most powerful politician was undeterred, saying, washington was committed to preserving taiwan democracy. china is responding with live 5 military drills and an import ban on time when these products will bring. and i guess in a moment, 1st this report from homages june for us. how speaker nancy pelosi, a high profile trip to taiwan, fraught with both complications and contradict

and taiwan is. ready really wanting support from the national community right now, but then the rest of the world is afraid it's advisable and there are some questions i think to be raised about, or the substitive gains from this symbolic or mostly just for show or if is actually thing taiwan gains from this kind of visit, though it puts how in the line of fire up in that respect. i think that this is long term in the face of taiwan and i, i would hope to see that change about the weight. i wanted the stuff that's more attention to the way tony is want their future to be. i oftentimes, i knew to have this notion that tommy should give up their freedoms to observe peace, or that they should stop being making noises about the soft termination and that kind of thing. and that china will go away. but i think also what's important to notice is that china's live fire drills also off example targeted map that there is missiles and up in japan's exclusive economic zone. others also chinese, the lock to be d

would not abandon taiwan. and she praised taiwan for being one of the freest in the world. now, after she leaves, we know the u.s. is being very supportive of taiwan's democracy. the question is, what are china's actions next. all the military drills, and what that will mean for taiwan and will china impose anymore stricter economic bands and military actions against taiwan? francine: john's of the other question, we saw this, it was pretty murky between nancy pelosi and president biden saying i wouldn't suggest it, but i wouldn't say no. did they make a difference between biden and house speaker? francine: at this point, beijing is not making a difference. u.s. administration has argued that beeker pelosi makes her own decisions about where she goes. beijing does not see it that way. she is the third ranking official in the u.s.. second line in terms of succession from the u.s. presidency. she has arrived in taiwan on a military aircraft. how is that not an official visit? i think that is the semantics at the moment. it is obvious china is taking aggressive measures econom

taiwan people. with one come talk international with coming to you from us studios in moscow. i'm paula smith. thanks so much for joining us. china has begun military trolls in areas surrounding tie when the move comes in response to the visit of us. how sick, how speaker nancy pelosi to taipei. she kicked off her to a earlier meeting with high ranking taiwanese officials, including the deputy legislature speaker and president, ty ones defense ministry has already accused mainland china of immediately encroaching on the islands territory and threatened to respond. china hasn't yet commented on those allegations. yes, some of the latest footage shaped by chinese media. 21 chinese warplanes pos to tie ones, aid defense identification zone. and according to basing military sources drills will include a non nuclear missile launches from the sea. east of the island territory that include alive, fire exercises, and coordination between warships and find to a coughed tie, one's islands. our states have bee

and taiwan. in dealing with this threat from china, your last walk of a moment of truth for approaching a richer because that her, her moment of truth arrived there because of man to spur, man, super lucy's recent visit. what i, i don't think so. i mean, there are all sorts of different take some nancy pelosi visit and what the chinese exercise that took place after it. mean some people i've been talking to here to say that they do feel that the chinese did show degree of restraint in those exercises. but what they also did was establish what we talked about as a new normal, that china's a fighter jets, for instance, now go further than they did across what's called a median line. at the line sort of in between taiwan and china. on the, in the taiwan strait. but the kind of moment of truth i'm really talking about here is the fact that china says that it wants to re unify as they put it with taiwan. and a great charity of the people of taiwan. say that they simply don't want that. how do you reso

and so we're going to be doing these lie fire drills on the west side of taiwan on the east side of taiwan to the north and south in the coming days. is it possible that pelosi could actually get stuck, that he know that's an excellent question. at the same time we've seen the u. s. military really focus on trying to build up some sort of buffer zone, but you're right, that is china's reason that is right in their backyard. and so if they wanted to make it difficult, they arguably could. now the question is going to become what they decide to do, and of course, how the united states decides to react if the by an administration is really going to step in and ramp tensions even more than what they already are at right now. well ahead of follow his visit, a group of locals gathered outside the grand hyatt hotel in taipei city where she's staying. the protesters are waved flags and shouting slogans and allowed speakers as well, basically made that feelings about her trip pretty clear. now, behold, vice chairman of the shanghai set up a rim pack and international studies are nelson. one believe

taiwan said the military exercises are "tantamount to an air and sea blockade of taiwan." we will have more on taiwan after headlines. voters in kansas have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure. nearly 60% of kansan voters opposed adding a constitutional amendment to remove the right to an abortion in the state. the lopsided vote surprised many. during the 2020 election, donald trump won the state by 15%. if the amendment had passed, it would have cleared the way for republican state lawmakers to ban abortion. in related news, the justice department has sued the state of idaho over its near total abortion ban. attorney general merrick garland said idaho's ban violates the federal emergency medical treatment and labor act. >> it does not matter what state hospital subject to operates in. for page and comes into an emergency room -- if a patient comes into an emergency room, the hospital must provide the treatment necessary to stabilize that patient. this includes abortion, if that is the necessary treatment. any state law that prevents a hospital from ful

and also with taiwan, was taiwan. is reunited with john and nancy pelosi are family members will be permanently forbidden to enter into china and china's hong kong and macau regis. and then after peace will reengaged them. they will be to enter into china's hiwassee province. now. secondly, on the government to government level, china will make a strong protest to the u. s. government and alerting that. so number 3, the highest ranking officials in the united states as the policy is violated in the one china policy journal wants to alert to the u. s government and b r a, b c, their responsibility to protect the world john, the position of the united states. and they run the risk of really down grady. china us relations from ambassadorial level a present to a fair level in the future for example. and also they may really fundamental, fundamentally undermine the china, us diplomatic relations. so these are all high stakes involved. and i think the chinese drug, we're going to the foreign ministry, the defense ministry,

i. taiwan relations act. we support the community, pays of this, that and the other thing that had gone before, so we're not, we're, we're supporters of the status quo and the rest. and we don't want anything to happen to taiwan by force. so stray and, and one of the biggest sources of strife is democracy. i said at a meeting earlier with the parliamentarians and our earliest days of our founding about country, benjamin franklin, m presidency said freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy on one thing. security here. if we don't have, we can't have it either. if we don't have both. so security, economic security economy. and again, they're all and governance. they're all related and we want come on to always have freedom with civility. and we're not asking them thank you very much. anything you like? thank you so very much ladies and gentlemen. today's event is especially important because we are witnessing the historical visit of speaker pelosi to tie while the can be the message of the u. s. support to t

the taiwan people. with it's 6 am in moscow, 11 am in taipei and you with ot international with coming to life on the russian capital. i'm point clear, thanks for joining us. china has begun military trolls and areas surrounding tie one. the move comes and response to the visit of us house be can nancy pelosi to taipei, which kicked off earlier with her meeting high ranking taiwanese officials, including the deputy legislature, speaker and president. he has some of the latest footage shade by chinese media. 21 chinese warplanes passed through ty, once a defense identification zone, and according to beijing, military sources drills will include non nuclear missile launches on the scene, east of the island territory. those include live, fire exercises and coordination between worships and fighter aircraft, ty, ones, islands, all said to have been put on for combat alert. as chinese media are flooded by footage of needed military preparations to china had already warned washington of serious consequences o

to show their support to taiwan, to taiwan's democracy.ody in taiwan is delighted by nancy pelosi's arrival here, but on the whole, most people welcome a visit by such a senior us politician. in fact, the taiwanese government would like more such visits, not one every 25 years. but mrs pelosi coming here does not by itself change the grim calculus now facing taiwan — which is a serious and growing threat from china which since the russia's invasion of ukraine, suddenly looks a lot more real. half an hour outside taipei in this disused factory, young taiwanese are learning basic gun skills. since the invasion of ukraine, enrolment on these courses has jumped by 50%. many of the new recruits are women. next door, jj lai and his friends are undergoing more advanced training. learning to work as a team and to evacuate the wounded. they used to do this for fun, but now it is much more serious. this is my home country, this is all i want, to protect it. i want to live here with my family, that's all. some critics say if taiwan wants america or a

he means a lot to taiwan is taiwan, has been facing continue, a diplomatic isolation. a fight is self isolated in the international society. so visit from a senior official of the us will be seen as a huge support from the us below this trip of course, is highly symbolic and a major victory for you as taiwan relations. however, we also have to note that this definitely would provoke china. even though there was no direct mation of china in the public remarks. now, zachary, are people in taiwan worried about the economic trade and the military implications for the country. busy well, you know, before, below pelosi arrived in taiwan time and people actually in fact, focus on domestic, easiest mold in her trip here. but no, we can feel that must tie one. these people now are actually happy to see pillows this feed it and they are not worried at all. a bowler fits from china, says they actually have been facing the threads for years over some now are actually a bit worried about beat her exit faces. the china has scheduled to conduct august 4th, since this may be the very

the taiwan a-shares, we see taiwan stocks down around 2%. not the same magnitude of losses we saw in the taiwanese dollar, below the 30 level. it is the market volatility on the back of nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. further come back is quite interesting to me, there is a sense of markets waiting to see, we have the meeting and the press conference to follow today in terms of how prices affect a geopolitical risk. we have heard china announcing a military drills and circling taiwan, setting the stage for some of the most provocative action we have seen in decades. this will be playing out when it comes to safe havens. the rally installing near a full week high, we saw some of the additional tailwinds coming from the pelosi trip in addition to global recession concerns, helping gold rebound. we are watching dollars, china as well. a bit of weakness when it comes to the dollar. take a look at the further upside, penson worldwide -- the wild ride on the golden dragon index. shery: it was interesting to see the market action today. there was a

for the taiwan people. i really hope the americans won't come around to mess things up so that we can live a peaceful life. yes, some interesting use there on the streets in taiwan listener, there's been hesitancy to from top us officials about nancy pelosi potentially making a stop in type it. so how is the house speaker herself her supporters justifying it? yeah, you know, when it comes to this entire trip, we've seen the white house really trying to kind of distance themself from it. and we really haven't heard much from how speaker nancy pelosi, in terms of that key justification about why she is moving forward with such a visit, even when you see tensions increasing all around. now when it comes to the white house, we know we heard from president biden, he even admitted that the u. s. military does not think that this is a good idea and they are concerned about this. but at the same time, when we heard from secretary of state blinking, he claimed that he did not know whether or not pelosi was going to

nancy pelosi arrives in taiwan.y: we also understand there are several u.s. naval carriers right now in the area. if we do get that response from china, if they give some kind of military response, do we know how quickly and with what moves the u.s. would react? anne-marie: we do have the uss ronald reagan and other navy ships in the south china sea. right now, what the white house is trying to do is trying to play down and tone down the rhetoric we have heard coming out of beijing. but what we could see from china is not unlike what we potentially saw in the past, when other foreign leaders visited taiwan. there could be more incursions into taiwan's air identification zone, we have seen that happen for months. there could be more intercepts with the financial times. we could also see the chinese military, the pla come across the median identification line in the taiwan strait. there is no talk of what the u.s. would potentially do to counter what would be regular items, but a little bit more aggressive. what is th

the taiwan strait. we also believe nobody three unilateral efforts or use of force should change the status quo. and, especially in light of what has happened in ukraine, we want to make sure the what happened in ukraine does not happen with regards to the southeast asian region, specifically taiwan. unfortunately, the people's republic of china has engaged in rather provocative measures and live fire exercises which happened long before we went to taiwan and happened after we went to taiwan. if the cost of avoiding these types of provocative measures is to cede control of taiwan to the people's republic of china or to cede control of our travel schedules and congress to the people's republic of china, that is not a price we are going to pay. price we are going to pay. that being said, we seek increased economic cooperation in the region as vice chair dell been a mentioned -- delbene mentioned. taiwan has pledged to invest $20 billion in manufacturing semiconductor chips in the united states. this week

house has traveled to taiwan. they regularly go to taiwan. our congress is an independent body of our government involving our policy toward taiwan or china. we continue to have a one china policy and continue to object to any unilateral change in the status quote whether that be from the prc were from taiwan. china's reaction was completely unnecessary. clearly, they were not happy with the speaker's visit and you saw a series of live fire demonstrations including something around dozen missile exercises that bracketed the island. you see an increased pace of naval and air activities in the straight including those over the so-called center line between mainland china and taiwan. clearly, the prc is trying to coerce taiwan and coerce the international community. we are not going to take the bait and it's not going to work. it's a manufactured crisis that does not mean we have to play into that. i think it would only play to beijing's advantage. what we will do instead is to continue to fly, sale and operate wherever international law allows

is supporting taiwan. from beijing's perspective, there is no legitimate reason for any politician of any stripe, mayor or president, to go to taiwan. for the number three person -- and a key figure in our legislative branch, which, -- that is a political statement on our part. they are sending a political response, using weapons saying, fine. understand you are doing something serious, we are doing something serious, too. host: there was a phone call between president biden and president xi before pelosi's trip. what do we know of that conversation? guest: sadly, very little. it is surprising. the u.s. readout of that was a paragraph long from a two hour conversation. they mentioned they talked about climate change and human rights. the chinese issued a three page, much more detailed version of what they said happened, including that xi jinping made it clear about taiwan. i fear that, as a result, the world is getting a bigger impression, much more influence from the chinese side, which is providing detai

for the taiwan people. i really hope the americans won't come around to mess things up so that we can live a peaceful life far from a united, from, from top us officials and military figures up i said hello seato making us stop in taipei, rachel. so how, how is the house speaker her supporters justifying it? yeah, you know, when it comes to policies, decision to even embark on this entire visit visit to asia. she really hasn't given much of a clear justification. initially we heard from president biden and saying that the u. s. military did not support this trip, that it did not recommend it. and that it was concerned about how it would serve to increase tensions with beijing, which is exactly what we've seen play out. but at the same time, secretary of state blank and had a very telling message when he said that not only did he not know what was policy was going to do. but that it was entirely up to her entirely her decision as to whether she visited taiwan or not. despite the fact that lincoln knows, just

the taiwan people. i really hope the americans won't come around to mess things up so that we can live a peaceful life. yes, so we know that the non suppose he is on the trip around asia to stand in singapore . i think it's malaysia today, so not very far away from taiwan. if that an option is there for her to visit in terms the ritual of the us. how are they justifying the potential trip to, to pay while the stanford white house has been to almost try to separate themselves from those as much as possible. you've got the secretary of state blinking, who came out and said that he didn't even know if polo see was planning on visiting taiwan. and he said that the decision was entirely up to her. and that is notable, especially when you take into account the fact that president biden has even said and admitted that the u. s. military is not advising this trip. they're not advising this ramp up intention, which of course is impacting them as they're having to increase their presence in the region as well. an

this is not just about taiwan.he entire indo-pacific, asia pacific, japan, south korea, australia, u.s. have there, and i think we have options. if among other things we strengthen our military presence, if we set up various economic sanctions that could be triggered, but also, fareed, i'm not arguing for a change in policy. let's get that clear. i think we ought to continue to reassure china that we don't support taiwan's independence. that as you say it worked well for 50 years, what we simply have to do is adjust how we implement that policy. china has dramatically raised the military threat to taiwan, we would be derelict if we didn't raise our capacity to deal with it. and that's a question of -- stability and a question of signal strategy, certainly for how we implement our strategy. >> susan, you disagree. why? >> well, i disagree because i think the best way of keeping the peace in the taiwan strait is to maintain the continuity of this policy that we have had for so long. it is very hard to explain it to p

not even one minute to use it is as a turning point on taiwan. i mean how future proof is the one china policy that the west has committed to and that more or less has kept the taiwan question limbo where you see speak up panels e.

very clearly told her a long time ago that he is attacking taiwan only in one case, that is if taiwanl follow the path of declaring a formal declaration of independence from china , at the moment we do not see any movements in this direction, that is, there is no question from the government of taiwan about some kind of desire to hold a referendum on independence or something like that, and that is why china says that of course philos gave the wrong signal to these forces that you wanted independence, but we see even among the taiwanese, after all, the majority of people are eager to preserve the status quo and do not want well before independence and this is the only condition under which china will start a war, which is what he actually talked about. that's why everything else. i think it's like pressure on taiwan, but not preparation for the invasion operation . another question then arises in my mind. is it really china wants to return taiwan, as it constantly talks about it, because as you say, the only condition is a referendum, taiwan can hold this referendum for a very long ti

s. relationship with taiwan. washington does not have formal diplomatic ties with the island, but maintains what it calls. a policy of strategic ambiguity recognizes the chinese government in beijing, but not china's territorial claim to taiwan. the u. s. does supply weapons to taipei and it's 1979. taiwan relations act. the island is a major economic and technology partner to the u. s. it supplies more than half of the world. semiconductors, china seas, taiwan as a breakaway province. that will eventually be united and hasn't rolled out using force. ah, let's bring in our guests in taipei, vincent chow form a director of the political division at the time pe, economic and cultural representative office in the u. s. and a former chief of staff to both the taiwan national security council and foreign minister in miami, june 24 drayer, professor political science at the university of miami and editor of the book taiwan in the area of science. when changes and challenges. and in beijing, henry who yeah, when founder

has become the number one savage or of the piece. instability of the taiwan strait and people in taiwan itself are anxious over the us house because trip, members of the public told us the us just wants to spread its power and influence. not help them for the hello see touch china's bottom line. she touched the red line . so both the u. s. and china have to take actions accordingly. they just used tie one to get our attention with the mastic market life he's visit will add tension to close the taiwan strait, which has no benefit at all for the taiwan people with it's just gone, steve and i am in moscow mid day in taipei, taiwan and hello and welcome. this is our t international coming to live from the russian capital. i'm policy clear, thanks so much for joining us. china has the gun military drills and areas surrounding tie. one. the move comes in response to the visit of us house be can nancy pelosi to taipei, which kicked off earlier with her meeting high ranking. taiwanese officials, including the deputy elect, a slit, a speaker and president. he has some of the latest footage shape

at the line sort of in between taiwan and china. on the, in the taiwan strait. but the kind of moment of truth i'm really talking about here is the fact that china says that it wants to re unify as they put it with taiwan. and a great charity of the people of taiwan. say that they simply don't want that. how do you resolve that then without going to war? richard walker labrador duplicate so much for joining us. virgin island and tension. don't i want to having an impact on other countries in the region as well? japan, for instance, it's western most island yacht agony lies just to 108 kilometers east of taiwan. it is in fact, closer to typing than it is to talk your and that has its 1500 residents. what'd it could become a new frontline? if hostilities break out in the future, fisherman is she not a tough she to go makes everything ship shape for his next big catch. he needs one urgently because he hasn't been able to fish as usual. after the recent chinese military drills around taiwan, the 32 year old was banned from heading out to sea for 5 days. it was deeme

if it invaded taiwan. absolutely, and i think that that also cuts both ways, not only in beijing being as an indicator of how the west and react type have also been watching very closely. learning military lessons from ukraine on the ground about how to resist the potential invasion by going back to your mental question. i think definitely there's been a lot of, especially in regards to things. and i think that the economic response, especially from the european union and the united states and the west, that lard and how unified it has been and how deep cutting it has been, i think not only moscow off guard, but also being off guard. and obviously the chinese economy is much larger than the restaurant economy. it's much more integrated globally, and the west is much more dependent on it than say, russia is. so i think that maybe they think that has a little bit more cover here in terms of getting hit by thanks and but seeing that final respond, i think, has, as we're in china, they've been looking into and

with taiwan now effectively surrounded by chinese military fears of a new crisis in the taiwan straits, arising all eyes and now on beijing our eyes are on type. hey we're, we're joined by joyce lee joyce. give us the latest. what's the situation right now? so china regularly conducts military drew's near taiwan, but it has never tried to encircle with the island. the de facto a blockade will loss and too sunday afternoon and some target has shown up within. ty wants territorial. see including an area just 20 kilometers from the south and city college shown. it's was noting that chinese citizens have express huge disappointment at beijing's lack of actions to, to, to stop. hello is these visit and many were expecting the p l lay to shoot pillows . he's playing down, but it didn't happen. of course. the public discontent is a huge blow to seizing piece authority, especially when his under pressure to look strong ahead of a party meeting later this year. so many fear that the pressure could prompt china to take it even tougher pressure measure against taiwan and a drill could be practici

the way we doha is arm taiwan now and make it crystal clear we will come to taiwan's defense. that's not so we can win a war over taiwan. it's so we can prevent a war. >> the biden administration refused to say whether or not they think nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan was worth it. now there is a bloomberg story that the biden administration is trying to kill a bill that would officially make taiwan a majors non-nato ally. it sounds like the white house is more concerned with g-7 allys. >> it's concerning. it's not just concerning to us but to the people of taiwan and to our allies in the region. especially japan. we are watching this closely. >> president biden is watching this from the white house residence. he tested positive for covid again. the fifth day in a row he's been positive with this rebound case. >> more isolation then for president biden. peter doocy, thank you. china's potential security threats against the u.s. are a topic of discussion at the senate judiciary hearing. fbi director christopher wray is the hot seat testing on the topic from the hunter biden probe

abandon our commitment to taiwan. and we are proud of our enduring friendship. today the world safe is the choice between democracy and autocracy. americans determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world. we may, iron clad, beijing's response was furious. panel shoot us or what pillows he has done this by no means a defense or protection of democracy, but a provocation and violation of china sovereignty and territorial integrity. it seems that china has vowed punishment under the one china principal, beijing views the self governing island as a break away province and has not ruled out re unification by force. it is announced a series of live fire military exercises surrounding the island, which taiwan warns will amount to an air and sea blockade. but despite china's threats tie once president, sighing ben was resolute mandates as she came facing deliberately highland military thread. what i want was not back down, we will firmly uphold our nation sovereignty and continue to hold the line of d